XRP News: Ripple Takes Aim at SWIFT, Pantera CEO Says

Dan Morehead, founder and CEO of Pantera Capital, told CNBC News that Ripple is going after the cross-border payments turf long dominated by SWIFT, reviving a comparison that has trailed XRP for years without ever being tested at institutional scale.

The remark says more about how a prominent crypto investor frames competitive positioning in payments than about how much of Ripple’s actual settlement volume runs through the XRP token itself.

$XRP "Ripple is going after Swift"– Dan Morehead, the founder of Pantera Capital pic.twitter.com/gOt5YXgGF3— XRP_Cro AI / Gaming / DePIN (@stedas) September 17, 2025 Morehead made the comment during a Squawk Box segment that also touched on Solana’s transaction throughput and Bitcoin’s role as digital gold.

He described Ripple’s SWIFT ambition as one of several major blockchain use cases shaping the industry, not as an imminent takeover of the network banks rely on for cross-border messaging.SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, functions as the dominant messaging system connecting financial institutions across borders, it coordinates payment instructions between banks.